Re: The concept of changing target URLs bulk

2015-03-16 Thread Dominic Asche
Hi Josh - thanks a lot for your detailed answer. We'll give the synchronus alternative you outlined a try and decide from there. When you said "changes of keywords and *URLs* in separate jobs", did you mean to say "changes of keywords and *ads* in separate jobs"? --> yes. Thanks a lot! Much

Re: The concept of changing target URLs bulk

2015-03-12 Thread Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)
Hi Dominic, One important point about *MutateJobService* is that operations submitted through that service will most likely take longer to complete than those same operations submitted to the non-job service, e.g., *AdGroupCriterionService*. The reason for this is that jobs submitted through *

Re: The concept of changing target URLs bulk

2015-03-11 Thread Dominic Asche
Hi Josh - thanks for quick reply. 1. *Traffic estimation:* - "Number of ads and keywords per ad group" --> ~50 ads and ~10-500+ keywords (per client) - "the number of ad groups you're processing per account" --> ~3.000+ (per client) *(clients 1-100 / day) * - At the m

Re: The concept of changing target URLs bulk

2015-03-11 Thread Josh Radcliff (AdWords API Team)
Hi, A couple of ideas/questions come to mind: 1. Could you give an estimate on a) the number of ads and keywords you are updating per ad group, b) the number of ad groups you're processing per account, and c) the number of accounts? I'd like to get an idea of the order of magnitude

The concept of changing target URLs bulk

2015-03-09 Thread Dominic Asche
We are trying to change the target URLs of our clients ads through the AdWords API. Our process is steched like this: - We pull via the AdWords API the existing and active AdGroups - Per AdGroup we do the following: 1. Pause active text-ads 2. Clone paused text-ads 3. Chan